Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lives in retirement near Stonehenge, writes gently minor poems that will seem old-fashioned to most readers of 1936. Of the 35 poems in Vigils, not one will taste bitter, few will have much taste at all to literary palates accustomed to present-day poetic diet. To ageing Poet Sassoon, even the War is now hardly more than a misty memory...
...instance of the Bard's incomparable use of contrast in dramatic craftsmanship, and the unravelling of the mysteries of Elizabethan language coupled with an appreciation of Shakspere's poetry was all that Kittredge attempted. He saw Shakspere as a man, writing for his Elizabethan audience the most thrilling and poetic plays he knew how, and if later critics have chosen to read more than this into the plays, it is their own concern...
...Indeed, to wax poetic", he continued: "'Tis (three score) years since Carroll's art, With topsy-turvy magic, Sent Alice wondering through a part Half-comic and half tragic...
...epilog, employing the old device of a dialog between the author and one of the characters who objects to his role in the book. A naturalist in philosophy, George Santayana is no naturalistic novelist, concerns himself little with realistic details. Instead, he has attempted to express the "poetic truth," rather than the literal truth about his people...
...affair is not the thing which makes Russet Mantle a notable addition to the Broadway season. Instead of standing around as background for the youngsters, the older members of the cast steal the show for themselves. If this turn of events surprised Playwright Riggs, Playwright Riggs, hitherto noted for poetic horse operas like Green Grow the Lilacs, simply flabbergasted Broadway by revealing an unsuspected talent for Grade A comic characterization...